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Conan O’Brien has been on the air for what feels like forever. You’d think his style wouldn’t be as funny now as it was when it started, but it definitely is. This video dissects Conan O’Brien’s show’s style and what makes it so funny. Namely, Conan does everything almost, but not entirely right. He has the perfect talk show set up, but there’s always something a little bit quirky. The whole show is a funny man-straight man setup––it’s worked into the show’s format.

As much as we all love Gene Wilder (RIP), Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory didn’t exactly give an accurate impression of how chocolate is made. Indeed, it’s nothing like that all. Take a look at this video, instead. In it, you’ll see Bon Appétit’s Brad visit a real chocolate factory, and he will explain how chocolate goes from a raw material to a dark chocolate or milk chocolate bar at your local grocery store.

Recently, the world watched with rapt attention as SpaceX took to the sky and then landed again. People all over the world were going nuts over this, to put it less poetically. They were going so crazy, in fact, that no one really stopped to ask how they were watching it. That is, what is the technology that makes this incredible footage possible? It definitely can’t be done with a standard DSLR or camcorder. This video explains how it was done.

So, what’s the deal with laugh tracks? But really though, during the time of laugh tracks, no one really thought much about them. Maybe some people really hated them, but by and large it was the norm so it was unquestioned. When laugh tracks lost popularity, though, everyone seemed to realize how annoying they were. What was the original purpose of the laugh track, though? And how does function get fulfilled without laugh tracks?

You might have seen Wagyu Beef on a menu at a fancy restaurant, and probably with a massive price next to it. If you ever wanted to know what Wagyu beef is and how it got to be so expensive, this video is for you. It explains that Japanese cattle were entirely isolated from other cattle around the world for most of its history. Then for a brief period outside cattle were brought in and interbred. This only lasted about ten years, and then it was ceased because the half-breeds were poor quality. But during that time, some cattle turned out superior.

Hot Ones is a famous internet interview show in which celebrities give interviews while eating very spicy wings. Over the course of the interview, the wing-spice builds and builds and the interviewee gets progressively more frenetic and hilarious. Hannibal Buress has been among the most requested celebrities, but also among the most elusive. But, for the one-hundredth episode of the show, Hannibal Buress agreed to appear and the results do not disappoint––just wait for the freestyle.

You might have heard of the Library of Alexandria in your history class, but you probably haven’t thought of it much since then. So if you need a refresher, the Library of Alexandria was essentially a massive ancient library with tons of ancient wisdom. Unfortunately, the most of the contents of the library was lost to a conflagration in the first century BCE. But exactly how that fire started is something of a debate among historians. Take a look at the video to learn more.

Have you ever wondered why you can’t send yourself from an airport in Louisville to, say, Norway overnight but you can send a box there overnight? The answer is simple in principle but complicated in action: shipping companies like UPS and FedEx have massive shipping infrastructures and far more space at airports than commercial flights get. The result is that your packages can fly from airport to airport way easier than you can. Here’s how different companies have it set up.

To honor the memory of John Mahoney (a.k.a. Martin Crane from Frasier), this Binging with Babish installment teaches you to make two dishes from the famous fictional gourmand. Or, more accurately, one from the gourmand––that’d be Frasier––and one from someone with a little bit more common tastes––that’d be Martin. Frasier’s dish is a nice quail with honey-pomegranate sauce. Martin’s is a BBQ pudding dip. The quail turns out pretty well, as you might expect. The BBQ pudding dip, though…well, don’t try this at home.

It’s not such a common trope anymore, but once upon a time it was common to joke around about women easily fainting at surprising news or trying circumstances. Heck, that’s why there are sofas in ladies rooms. But where did this trope come from? This video explains the history of the fainting lady phenomenon. It begins, as you might have known, with corsets. Tight corsets led to poor circulation which led to…well, splat. But that’s not all. The fainting also has to do with the sheer amount of clothes women had to wear, even during the heat of summer.

What’s more terrifying than your average blizzard dumping feet of snow and threatening to lock you in your home like the Donner Party? When thunderstorms create the perfect conditions for a rare phenomenon called thundersnow. This SciShow episode explains the atmospheric conditions required to produce thundersnow and explains why it’s so cool; namely, because the conditions required for thundersnow are extremely rare. If you really want to experience it, hang out near a body of water during a snowfall.

Everyone slips into a funk sometimes. You don’t have to be clinically or chronically depressed to fall into a funk––indeed, you don’t need any kind of diagnosed condition. Going through depressive periods is just part of the undulations of life. When you slip into a funk you can’t seem to break out of, try these five tips. They’ll help you break out of that funk and get back to your old self. But of course, if you can’t do this on your own, please seek professional help.